We have a meaningful chance to create millions of family-wage jobs, rebuild our aging roads, bridges and highways and take big steps forward to save our planet.

That is the potential of the infrastructure package currently being debated in Congress.

Negotiation is ongoing, but I am confident that we will see a progressive infrastructure deal very soon that does right by Washingtonians by investing in our communities.

My colleague John Lewis is deeply missed in Congress, but his life's work and his legacy live on as we do our work to protect the right to vote in America.

John was not shy about sharing the challenges that people of color faced simply to gain the right to vote. He understood how powerful that right was to a functioning democracy. In the fifteen months since his passing, a new wave of attacks have reminded us that progress does not have to be linear. We must be as vigilant as ever against undemocratic actors who are fighting to erode the rights of everyday Americans.

We are facing a major battle on reproductive rights.

Last week, Texas passed the most restrictive anti-choice bill in the country. Even worse, the Supreme Court, set to consider a repeal of Roe v. Wade this term, refused to step in and uphold the long-existing law of the land.

What happened in Texas is a threat to reproductive health and personal rights everywhere. Texas's six-week abortion ban effectively prohibits Texans from accessing critical reproductive health care, even in cases of rape and incest. And in the week since, emboldened by the Court's silence, states like South Dakota have introduced increasingly-restrictive measures in defiance of Roe.